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F. M. BORING.

HARNESS PAD.

No. 449,198. Patented Mar. 31,1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK M. BORINGQOF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWARD F. COOPER, OF SAME PLACE.

HARNESS-PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,198, dated March 31, 1891.

Application filed September 4, 1890. Serial No. 363,924. (No model.)

T @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK M. BORING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the count;7 of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness Pads; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, To which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to those auxiliary pads or cushions which are temporarily attached to horse-collars, saddles, and other parts of harness to prevent the constant chafing or rubbing of a sore on the animals neck orbody; and the first part of my improvements comprises a novel combination of devices which permits the cushion to be shifted either laterally of the plate or cap or longitudinally o of the same, so as to adjust the pad and prevent any rubbing of a sore on either side of the animals neck, as hereinafter more fully described.

The second part of my improvements cousists in attaching the lining of the cushion to the plate or cap by crimping the latter, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is alongitudinal section of a simple form of my improved harness-pad. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a more complex construction of the same, a strap being seen engaged with the integral loops of the cap. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a modified construction of pad especially adapted for attachment to a gig-saddle. Fig. e is a transverse section of a pad whose cushion is capable of being shifted either laterally or longitudinally of the cap or plate. Fig. 5 is an enlarged plan of the central por tion of said cushion. Fig. 6 is an enlarged transverse section of one-half of an other form of pad.

Like all attachments of a similar character the principal or outer member of my pad is a cap A, usually of sheet metal bent to approximate the saddle shape seen in Fig. 4, and having an integral front loop B and a similar rear loop C, (represented in Fig. 1,) which single pair of loops may be all that is necessary with some forms of pads. These loops are made by incising or slotting the plate transversely, as at i) Z1 and c c,and then bending the intervening metal outwardly, thereby affording means for attaching the collar without employing the objectionable bridge-bar which has heretofore been used for this purpose.

D represents a practically annular cushion secured to the under side of cap A in any suitable manner, the central opening or pit of said cushion being sufficiently capacious to clear such galled places as usually form on a horses neck.

This pad is secured in place by passing a strap through the pair of loops B O and then buckling said strap around the horse-collar. I prefer, however, to use two front loops, as seen at B B in Fig. 2, and a corresponding number of rear loops C O', inasmuch as such an arrangement of fasteners enables the pad to be shifted either up or down on the horses neck, according to the position of the sore. Furthermore, in this illustration a strap E is seen engaged with the loops B' C', which strap is so applied as to have a pair of bends c c formed in it, the object of these bends being to serve as bearings or shoulders for the collar to rest against. The modification seen in Fig. J is for a larger pad to be used with gig-saddles, and as the ridge-loops are here inadmissible they must be made on the sides of the plate, and are preferably arranged in pairs, as shown at F and G G. These loops are integral with said plate'and are designed to admit a strap wherewith the gigsaddle is secured in place, said loops being, of course, duplicated on the other side of the pad.

In each of the above-described pads the cushion is immovably secured to the metallic plate or cap; but it is frequently desirable to shift the cushion without changing the position of the pad with reference to the collaror gig-saddle, which shifting is accomplished by constructing the pad in the manner shown in Fig. et. Here H represents the ordinary cloth or canvas covering of the cushion, and I is a disk of metal or stiff leather attached to said covering bya row of stitchingi. This stitching is applied near the edge of the disk and binds the outer and inner coverings so closely together as to prevent the entrance of any of ICO the cushion-filling at the center of the pad. Consequently 'a pit is formed at the center of the cushion to avoid Contact with a sore or galled place on the horse. Disk I has a se- 5 ries of holes J, arranged in pairs, as seen in Fig. 5, and the plate A has at its ridge two holes a a'. (Shown in Fig. 4.)

K is a cord or wire, which is passed through the holes a c and also through either pair of ro the set of holes J of the disk. Evidently the cushion will be shifted with reference to the plate, according to whichever set of holes J the cord K may be passed through, and after the proper adjustment has been effected said cushion may be temporarily secured in place by other cords, as L L traversing` small perforations in the plate A. This shiftable cushion may be applied either to the collarpad seen in Fig. I orto the saddle-pad rep- 29 resented in Fig. 3.

In the modification seen in Fig. 6 the ceni tral portion of the cushion-covering H is held in place by a disk M, secured to cap A. by rivet m, and the outer edge of said covering z 5 is doubled back on itself at h and grasped by the 'crimped margin a of said cap, after which act this covering is stuffed through a suitable hole made in the cap for that purpose, which charging orifice may then be soldered up or otherwise closed. Finally it is preferred to turn up or round the edges of the various loops, as seen in Fig. 2, to prevent them cutting the strap or straps used in connection with my pad.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination, in a harnesspad, of the cap A, pierced at a a', the cushion-covering H, the cushion proper I), confined between said cap and covering, the center piece I, secured to said covering and provided with a series of holes J, arr. nged in pairs, and a binder K, wherewith said center piece and covering are temporarily coupled to said cap, all as herein described.

2. The combination, in a harness-pad, of cap A, cushion D, and a covering Il, having lits central portion immovably secured to the under side of cap A, as at m, and having its margin doubled back on itself, as at 7L, and the edge of said cap bent inwardly at a and crimped against this doubled part of said covering1 all as herein described.

In testimony whereof I affix lnysignature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK M. BORING.

Witnesses:

JAMES II. LAYMAN, SAMUEL M. QUINN. 

